From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...